playing the sycophant to gain the support of 

 any. It will in the future, as in the past, 

 quietly move along, acting for the best in- 

 terests of bee-keepers generally, and will be 

 appreciated by those who are impartial and 

 unprejudiced ; but may be condemned by 

 those whose minds are too full of prejudice 

 to discriminate between right and wrong- 

 between liberality and narrow-minded self- 

 ishness. 



If it be an unpardonable sin for a dealer 

 in apiarian supplies to edit a bee journal, 

 how abandoned must he be who manufac- 

 tures bee hives, bee smokers, etc., and then 

 writes a book to recommend their use and 

 create a sale for them ! 



Such may make themselves hoarse while 

 crying fraud, but the Bee Journal will 

 keep right along, peacefully and prosperous, 

 while the waves of oblivion shall roll over 

 their denunciations and calumnies. 



©otTtsponclctrec, 



For the American Bee Journal. 



The Producers' Interests. 



JAMES HEDDON. 



Years ago, a mulish, long-eared, 

 sordid, selfish fellow (as I was called by 

 some) tried to show honey producers, 

 that is, those who support their wives 

 and little ones from the products of 

 their bees, that all this gush, all these 

 large reports, all this talk about " bees 

 working for nothing and boarding 

 themselves," the assertions that sickly 

 men and weaker woman, could here find 

 a lucrative business, one of immense 

 income, with little labor, little sense 

 and less capital, was not only an insult 

 to honey producers, but false; and 

 whether so or not, was damaging to the 

 honey producers that then existed. 



That these gush-over fellows were 

 gushing for selfish purposes, and not 

 one of them having any experience 

 or thought was following their own 

 royal road to wealth. A patent hive, 

 instruction book or something to sell to 

 the beginner, was always behind the 

 scenes. 



All religions, whether true or false, 

 have for their basis, true moral precepts ! 

 Crafty founders of the latter know- 

 enough of human nature to know that 

 their scheme however rickety, must 

 have a solid foundation. 



There is just at this time a little seed 

 trying to sprout in this fertile soil— 



truth. The owners intend to name 

 it: "Co-operative Bee Journal." 1 

 refer to the following from the Bee-Keep- 

 ers'' Magazine's report of the Northeast- 

 ern Bee-Keepers' Association. My sym- 

 pathies have always been, and I believe 

 always will be with these principles, 

 but I wish to see nothing but fair, can- 

 did truth put into the structure built 

 upon them : 



The opinion was expressed that the National Asso- 

 ciation is run by a rins,', for selfish purposes, and facts 

 were cited to establish this view. Articles sent 

 to the American Bee Journal are mutilated to 

 make them conform to the views and interests of the 

 ring that runs it. The Journal makes false state- 

 ments and charges, and refuses to correct them. It 

 mis-quotes the markets, because its proprietors are 

 dealers in honey and supplies ; and, therefore, it ap- 

 pears as the organ of the " bears" in the market. 



Mr. Editor, permit me to make a few 

 comments on the above quotation. 

 First, among others I attended that 

 National Convention at Chicago. I was 

 allowed full time to have my say, I be- 

 came a part of that Convention, I 

 helped to run the controversial part of 

 it, and I was met by strong, but courte- 

 ous, arguments, I was not a " ring " or 

 any part of one. However small, in the 

 intellectual world I always mean to be a 

 unit, and no part of a "ring." That 

 "the meeting was run for selfish pur- 

 poses " is true. I went there to learn, 

 and to do what little I could to protect 

 honey producers ; to oppose what I con- 

 sidered the erroneous doctrines that 

 " honey is about to become a staple,'" 

 and that there is no danger of lowering 

 the price by over production. Supply 

 dealers where there to show their goods, 

 &c.; all for one common purpose, viz: 

 to better their condition; thai is to say 

 — selfishness. 



Now, in regard to the American 

 Bee Journal— what its editor may 

 have done to them I have no means of 

 knowing; butthis I do know, that when 

 I was almost alone in advocating the 

 principles they propose to build on, the 

 Journal was the only paper through 

 which 1 could be heard. Mr. A. 1. 

 Root refused my reply to him, without 

 even deigning to give au\ reasons for 

 so doing. After 1 had it published else- 

 where, he copied it, and replied to it, 

 and again refused a courteous reply to 

 that. 



I have a profound respect tor the 

 man who willingly and pleasantly re- 

 ceived and put into print my articles 

 criticising "// the bee publications (his 

 own included), and who had the manli- 

 ness to say: "though we disagree with 

 him. be has a right to be heard." These 

 words of Mr. Newman should be printed 

 in gold, and put as a motto over our 

 doors. I like the American Bee 

 Journal because it runs supplies, in- 

 stead of allowing supplies to run it: 



